News tagged with diversity
Map of Human Bacterial Diversity Shows Wide Interpersonal Differences
Nov 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed the first atlas of bacterial diversity across the human body, charting wide variations in microbe populations that live in different ...
Research study on the European mink, Mustela lutreola
Nov 02, 2009 |
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The European mink, Mustela lutreola, is a species catalogued as in danger of extinction, due to the large decline in their population over the past century. It is considered to be one of the most endangered mammals, both l ...
New research shows how mobile DNA survives -- and thrives -- in plants, animals
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Bits of movable DNA called transposable elements or TEs fill up the genomes of plants and animals, but it has remained unclear how a genome can survive a rapid burst of hundreds, even thousands of new TE ...
EU launches digital library at Frankfut Book Fair
Oct 18, 2009 |
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The European Union used the world's biggest book fair to launch the EU Bookshop's digital library, making more than 50 years of documents in about 50 languages available for free on the Internet.
Public expresses need for government intervention to reduce socio-economic disparities in health
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 15, 2009 |
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As Congress debates the public health care option, a recent study reveals greater public support for reducing health care disparities among socio-economic groups (i.e. by income or education) than among racial groups. The ...
Study: Endangered AK beluga whale group declining
Oct 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A government study found that a group of endangered beluga whales in Alaska is declining, raising concern that bolstered protection for the animals is not coming quickly enough.
Biodiversity loss weakens global development
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Biodiversity loss is undermining global development, leading scientists warn. The paper brings together a broad group of scientists and policy makers, including Natural History Museum plant expert Dr Sandra ...
Feds to decide on listing ice seals as threatened
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A federal agency must decide within three weeks whether spotted seals, which depend on sea ice off Alaska's coast, should be listed as a threatened or endangered species.
Scientists outline planetary boundaries: A safe operating space for humanity
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 23, 2009 |
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New approaches are needed to help humanity deal with climate change and other global environmental threats that lie ahead in the 21st century, according to a group of 28 internationally renowned scientists.
Taming the vast -- and growing -- digital data-sphere
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers are making an impressive effort to link up digital repositories to create a vast network of easy to search online data. The DRIVER project work - one of the largest efforts of its kind ...
Gut ecology in transplant patients
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Small-bowel transplant patients with an ileostomy -- an opening into their small bowel -- have a very different population of bacteria living in their gut than patients whose ileostomy has been closed, researchers from UC ...
Researchers find no loss of vegetable diversity in the 20th century; correct math error in 1983 study
Sep 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Two University of Georgia scholars argue against the conventional wisdom that the 20th century was a disaster for vegetable crop diversity by showing that there was no overall loss of vegetable diversity ...
Sex life may hold key to honeybee survival
Sep 14, 2009 |
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The number and diversity of male partners a queen honeybee has could help to protect her children from disease, say University of Leeds scientists, who are investigating possible causes of the widespread increase ...
Genome sequencing reveals genetic diversity of the bacteria that cause Buruli ulcer
Sep 11, 2009 |
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A new study lays the groundwork for development of a cost-effective tool for studying the population structure and spread of Mycobacterium ulcerans, the causative agent of Buruli ulcer. Researchers at the Swiss Tropical Instit ...
Top wheat experts call for scaling up efforts to combat Ug99 and other wheat rusts
Sep 11, 2009 |
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Wheat experts from 26 countries warn that rapidly-moving, wind-borne transboundary wheat diseases continue to threaten food security and wheat genetic diversity worldwide — particularly in the ancient breadbasket stretching ...
